Went to church & religion as a youth. Got a Bible and started reading it. I soon released I didn’t believe it.
And that’s probably the number one reason people leave the church, They just don’t believe.
So are you a doubting Thomas? Unless you can touch it, you don’t believe??
Do you believe in the sun, the moon, the stars, the conception and immediate soul of a baby??
You can’t touch those things. Yet I bet you beleieve in them.
LOL. I am the mirror opposite. I wasn't raised in a believing home and never went to church growing up. Was curious and bought a bible to read. I realized this was the first unadulterated truth I had ever been exposed to in my life. I never looked back.
Actually God is moving in the church. Check out Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill church Seattle. 1000s of young unchurched in atheistic Seattle are showing up at church every week.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lmfn2VVvt8
But why don’t you believe?
And that is ALL we are asked to do!
Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
1 John 3:21-24
Dear friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his commands and do what pleases him. And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.